About Tanya
Tanya (Kai) Qualls is a licensed professional counselor who aims to connect with people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or life changes. She focuses on practical steps that help clients manage strong emotions and rebuild confidence. Tanya centers the client's story and strengths in each session, offering steady support while people work toward clearer goals.
She uses straightforward conversations and evidence-informed methods to help with depression, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, and questions about gender identity.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to be a space where someone can name what feels hard and try small changes that add up over time. Tanya values patience and respects each person's pace for healing. Over 12 years she has worked with people facing isolation, guilt and shame, abandonment and family of origin issues, and compassion fatigue.
She also assists those dealing with hoarding, infidelity, and control or commitment struggles. Her work includes supporting people from LGBT communities and those navigating gender dysphoria. Tanya draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, and a client-centered stance.
That mix lets her combine practical skills training with attention to personal values and emotional experience. Sessions often include skill practice, reflection, and planning for real-life situations. She is licensed in Pennsylvania as an LPC and conducts sessions in English.
People who want to begin are invited to take a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their needs.
How Tanya's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that reflect what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.Deciding which method fits best is a collaborative process. Tanya will listen to your goals, try different strategies, and check in about what helps. She adapts tools from each approach so sessions reflect your preferences and the problems you want to solve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you work face-to-face for skills practice and conversation. Phone sessions are an option when less bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief updates, coping reminders, and ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to try techniques in real life between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Avoidant personality
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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